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Re: HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE question



On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:02:49 -0600
"Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <herrsergio@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Sergio,

> I closed all my terminals, reopened them, execute . .bashrc without
> success.  In .bash_history are only 500 lines.
> What is wrong ?

You need to log out, then back in.  Merely shutting down all bash
sessions isn't enough.  Then, you have to execute a command or two to
go over the old 500 limit, as the history file can't magically recover
500 previously deleted lines.

This isn't Windoze, you know.   :-)

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